184: 2002!

Let's Go To Court!

Comedy, True Crime, History

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Lydia Fairchild was in a tight spot, financially. She had two young children, was pregnant with a third, and she was unemployed. So she applied for welfare. As part of Washington state’s application process, she and the children’s father both submitted DNA samples to confirm that they were the children’s biological parents. But the DNA tests revealed shocking news. She was not the children’s mother.

Then Brandi tells us about a murder that hit close to home. It was the spring of 2002, and Amanda Sharp and her friend Kevin Gunby didn’t want to go to school. So the pair skipped class and headed over to Kevin’s house. Hours later, when their friend Brad Jaynes showed up at Kevin’s house, Kevin delivered startling news. He told Brad that he’d killed Amanda. Then he showed him her body.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
The documentary, “The Twin Inside Me”
“She’s her own twin,” from ABC News
“The You in Me,” by Sam Kean for Psychology Today
“The case of Lydia Fairchild and her chimerism,” by Alexis Darby for The Embryo Project Encyclopedia

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“SM North students trying to cope with classmate’s death” by Kati Jividen, The Kansas City Star
“Slain girl remembered as creative, adventurous” by Richard Espinoza and Kati Jividen, The Kansas City Star
“Trial date set for teen in slaying of girl, 17” by Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star
“Teenager is convicted of first degree murder” by Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star
“Fairway man gets life sentence for strangling girlfriend” by Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star
“State v. Gunby” findlaw.com

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0:00.0	One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. Two experts. I'm Kristen Caruso. I'm Brandy Egan. Let's go to court.
0:10.5	On this episode, I'll talk about welfare fraud. And I'll be talking about another murder in Johnson County.
0:17.3	My goodness! It's amazing you're able to stay alive over there.
0:21.1	Just fighting off. Killers left and right.
0:25.3	Well, I'm glad you're able to make it over here to Missouri. My life in my hands. We're kind of hyper today.
0:32.3	We just recorded the bonus episode a couple days ago. So we're just like...
0:38.3	Yeah, I feel like on these weeks, wherever you do the two episodes, we're just kind of like hyped up.
0:43.3	It's like we see the end in seconds. That's exactly what it is. We're going to do a strong finish.
0:49.3	That's right. I've got that... What's that called? You got that goo?
0:54.3	No, I never eat the goo. You don't eat the goo? No, I do... I have no one cares.
0:59.3	No one cares. People want to know what you do. People want to know what you do. People want to know what you do.
1:04.3	People want to know what you do. Who's going to say? I do the do.
1:09.3	No, I do like the honey stingers. It's basically like eating a gummy bear every couple miles.
1:15.3	You eat an edible, every couple miles. What did you do?
1:20.3	That would be... Oh man, I probably just go super slow.
1:24.3	Yeah, but think I was going to go ahead and just kill it.
1:28.3	Yep, yep, but they're pulling the porta-potties away.
1:32.3	No, I don't think so.
1:35.3	Anyway, welcome to this week's episode everyone.
1:39.3	That's right. Here we are at Let's Go to Court.
1:42.3	The podcast that you think is just okay.
1:47.3	You know what I almost said? Welcome to the bonus episode.
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